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Celebration of life: Irving Robbins
Millerton News
May 06, 2026
Please join us to celebrate the life of Irving Robbins on Saturday, May 30, from 11 AM to 2 PM at the Sharon Center School (80 Hilltop Road, Sharon CT 06069). Refreshments will be served. For easier accessibility and a stair-free walk, please use the lower road to the school where limited parking is available.
Memorial service: Clayton Squire Smith
Millerton News
May 06, 2026
Numbers you ought to know about
Peter Riva
May 06, 2026
This White House has committed to a sustained trillion dollar defense budget for at least the next 5 years.That’s a million million, or a thousand billion, or $1,000,000,000,000 per year or$2,900 for every man, woman, retiree, and baby in America per year, every year.
And that’s not all that has been announced… the long term procurement of missiles is going to go from $9,000,000,000 for the Navy, $6,000,000,000 each for the Army and Air Force to $31 billion for the Navy, 24,500 for the Army and $21,000,000,000 for the Air Force within 4 years. Aircraft is following an even steeper increase especially for the Navy and Air Force. For the Navy they will go from $18,000,000,000 to $32,000,000,000 and for the Air Force from $30,000,000,000 to $54,000,000,000. And what you have to remember is that for every $1 spend on a missile or an airplane, the estimates previously given before Congress shows that another $10 is spent on supplies, training, and infrastructure.
Oh, and remember the fledgling Space Force, that new wing at the Pentagon? They are increasing spending too. From $4,500,000,000 in 2025 to $18,500,000,000 within three years. And that does not include Golden Dome, now budgeted at $17,500,000,000 for next year — yes, next year — and then levelling off for the next 10 years at $16,000,000,000 per year. And if you think that budgeting encompasses all the relevant costs for Golden Dome, you have not been paying attention to governmental accounting procedures where a hammer costs $2,500 to fudge expenses spent elsewhere.
There are two ways to justify renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War. One is to commit us to existing war follies and misjudgments like Iran and the other way is to so increase weapon spending that the use of those new military tools becomes inevitable. The White House increases in military spending is out of all proportion to peaceful containment of so-called enemy regimes and is more in line with an expansionist and more dangerous future for all humanity.
Peter Riva, a former resident of Amenia Union, New York, now lives in Gila, New Mexico.
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Proud American
Larry Conklin
May 06, 2026
I was raised in a patriotic household in this patriotic town of Millerton. At a very young age I was given responsibility for many daily chores one of whichinvolved raising and retiring our red, white and blue flag pre-dawn and at dusk. Another was my feeble attempt at gardening. I proved a much better harvester of veggies, fruits, game and fish. This was a time of self-sustenance, meaning you produced your own food or you went hungry. Raising chickens, cold storage, canning, salting and drying was the norm.
WW2 was upon us — meager rationing of fuel, food and everyday necessities were scarce so we embraced our faith in God, ourselves and Mother Nature’s bounty. Most local town young men were in military service. Some never came back. Women produced war machinery, food, clothing and items essential to our troops — remember Rosie the Riveter? Young boys became crack shots and respectable fishermen which provided home table fare. These skills served them well when they later joined the military to protect our freedoms from those wishing us evil.
Our young men and women continue to protect us, foreign and domestically, from these evils giving us freedom and relief of anxiety, uncertainty and subjucation. A strong commander-in-chief and a strong military devoid of political prejudice will protect our country for all the right and reasonable reasons thereby keeping us safe. Vote wisely.
From the American Revolution til present far too many have fallen or passed. Memorial Day — a day to respectfully remember and honor those who have given up their homes, loved ones, futures and dreams to protect you, the American public.
Drive through a local cemetary and see patriotism on full display. Take a moment to offer a prayer for their souls. A solemn day for me which will start on a high mountainside listening for the various gun volleys announcing their salutes of honor paying respects to our nation’s fallen.
God bless you, patriotic readers and your families Have a terrific Memorial Day weekend with favorable weather, family and friends and yummy BBQs.
God is good and will look over you. Til next time.
Town of North East resident Larry Conklin is a Vietnam veteran and a member of both the Millerton American Legion Post 178 and the VFW Post 6851. in North Canaan, Connecticut.
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Letter to the Editor — Thursday, May 7
Millerton News
May 06, 2026
Enjoyed profile of Amenia’s Edgewood
I thoroughly enjoyed your article on Amenia’s late Edgewood Restaurant; especially since it brought back memories of another long-gone venue on the road to Sharon.
It was the Brookside and during the Sharon Playhouse’s annual season it served as sort of a green room for the actors, apprentices and audience members after the Playhouse’ curtain fell.
During those years of the nineteen fifties the Playhouse was staffed by actors who were in repertory. Every week in July and August they appeared all sorts of comedies showing great versatility in the roles they portrayed.
In addition, they gladly interacted with the rest of the Company, including the nightly fun at the Brookside with some getting up on the small Brookside to do a song or two.
In 1960 I worked full-time in the Playhouse’s box office and was warmly welcomed as a member of the “Family.”
Oh, and I often dined at the Edgewood!
Bill Knowlton
Liverpool, NY
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Caterpillars, rezoning, warriors, sterile carp
Millerton News
May 06, 2026
The following excerpts from The Millerton News were compiled by Kathleen Spahn and Rhiannon Leo-Jameson of the North East-Millerton Library.
May 2, 1935
Mrs. Eisenhuth Dies At Son’s Home
Mrs. Elsie Eisenhuth, 79, widow of the late Frederick Eisenhuth Sr., died Saturday at the home of her son, Hugo Eisenhuth, in Millerton. Surviving are two sons, Hugo and William Eisenhuth of Rockville Centre, L. I.; three grandchildren, Chester F. Eisenhuth of New York City, George N. Eisenhuth of Richmond Hill, L. I., and Jacqueline E. Eisenhuth of Rockville Centre, and several nieces and nephews. Two daughters died in infancy and a son, Frederick Jr., died a year ago.
Luckey’s Streamline Train Visits Millerton
A modern streamline train visited Millerton Tuesday. But instead of traveling on rails, it came here via the State highway. The train is making a tour of the Central Hudson Valley advertising the sixty-sixth anniversary sale of Luckey, Platt and Company in Poughkeepsie. The novel train is mounted on a White truck chassis.
Community Market In New Shufelt Building
The Community Market, managed by Bernard Manning, will open for business today in its new quarters in the Shufelt Building. The market occupies half of the new addition recently erected on the corner of Main and John Streets, the other half of the structure being occupied by the Nation-Wide Store owned by Wesley Plass.
Tree Owners Asked To Check Caterpillars
The Dutchess County Farm Bureau in a statement today is urging all tree owners of the county to take immediate steps in checking an impending outbreak of tent caterpillars. “Present indications,” states the spray information service of the Bureau, are that tent caterpillars will be even more destructive than last year when they were unusually abundant.”
May 6, 1976
Shopping Center Proposed: Board To Make Rezoning Decision
The North East Town Board will probably decide at its meeting on Thursday, May 13, whether to rezone property east of the Village of Millerton to accommodate a shopping center, Town Supervisor Frank Perotti said Tuesday.
General Development of Connecticut (GDC) applied last year to the Town Board for rezoning 50 acres of land on Route 44 at the New York/Connecticut State line from residential to commercial.
Town May Operate Rudd Pond Again
The Town of North East may again take over the operation of the Taconic State Park at Rudd Pond unless money is restored to the budget of the New York State Office of Parks and Recreation (OPR).
NorthEast Town Supervisor Frank Perotti said Tuesday that the Town Board was in agreement to take over the park’s operation if the Town can have the same contract it had last year.
In an unprecedented move in New York State, the Town of North East ran the Rudd Pond park near Millerton last summer after the State closed the park without warning on May 23, 1975, at the very start of the vacation season.
The Town opened the park again on June 27, 1975, and at the end of the vacation season in October, the Town found that it had spent less than its $18,500 budget and had made $4000 on the deal.
May 3, 2001
150th Anniversary Panel Needs Funds
MILLERTON - This August, the village of Millerton will celebrate its 150th anniversary. The village was settled in 1851, with the arrival of the New York Central Railroad.
Last summer, a committee, under the auspices of the North East Historical Society, was formed to plan a week-long celebration for the historical occasion. A program of events was established and efforts to raise the funds needed for the celebration began in September 2000.
No More Warriors? NYS Urges Schools To Drop Indian Mascots
WEBUTUCK - Is the Webutuck School District’s mascot, depicting a Native American with a feather headdress, “disparaging and disrespectful?”
This is one question a committee of community citizens will address in a series of meetings beginning May 9. The formation of the committee was prompted by an April 20 memorandum from state Education Commissioner Richard A. Mills.
Hermans, Gorman, Najdek Become Board Members at NECC
MILLERTON - Three new members have been added to the Board of the North East Community Center (NECC). Many residents know them already, as they have long been active in the community.
Over 100 Sterile Carp Fall Prey To Rudd Pond’s Winter
NORTH EAST — As part of an effort to thin the amount of aquatic weeds, 480 sterile, hungry carp found a new home in Rudd Pond last spring. Yet the unusually cold winter took its toll, killing a large number of fish, including up to 100 of the carp.
“A substantial number of carp unfortunately did not make it through the winter,” said Jim Campbell, who owns a house near Rudd Pond. “They knew they would lose a few — that’s just nature — but this was obviously beyond that.”
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